Chapter 268: Five or Six Hundred Jin of Horse-faced Pufferfish
"Didn't we catch silver pomfret when we were fishing on the bottom of the sea at Guanqi Island before? Why don't we try there first? If there are fish, that would be great. If not, we can go to deeper places!" Li Liang suggested.
"I was there that time, too. The silver pomfret there is just a passing fish," Liang's father shook his head in disapproval. "If you go there for the silver pomfret, there's a good chance you won't catch any!"
"Yes, there are more whitebait in the Guanqi Island area. It's okay to let them run on the seabed, but longline fishing may not be suitable there!" Liang Ziqiang's judgment is basically the same as his father's.
The bottom water of Guanqi Island is mostly populated by plum fish and dragon head fish, which is very suitable for seabed diving, but is meaningless for longline fishing.
Both of these fish are too small to bite the large iron hooks of longline fishing, and are not the targets of longline fishing.
"I'm really not sure where to go. How about this," Liang Ziqiang thought for a while, "Last year we did night fishing and found a lot of flathead tuna in a certain area of the sea. We can go there and take a look. If there are really flathead tuna again this time, we will be prepared. We can use fishing nets to cast those floating on the water, and use longline fishing for those hiding underwater!"
"You can try this!"
Liang's father and Li Liang both agreed with Liang Ziqiang's idea.
Finally, they decided to go to Guanqi Island first, throw the seabed fish there, and catch the plum fish.
Then continue driving towards deeper water, find the sea area where we used to fish at night, and look for flathead tuna.
Anyway, to go to that sea area, you have to pass through Guanqi Island.
In this way, by combining seabed diving, casting nets, and longline fishing, several fishing methods can be used to complement each other, and the hope of catching fish is much higher than ordinary trips to the sea!
After the decision was made, the three ships headed to the sea at the same time.
Occasionally they saw some small fish floating on the surface of the water on the way, but as there were not many, they did not waste time casting nets to catch them.
Later, they saw a small group of hair shrimps, so they stopped to catch some, not to sell them, but to use them as backup bait for longline fishing.
There are more than a thousand hooks on each boat, which consumes too much bait!
After arriving at Guanqi Island and dropping off their respective submarine hooks in a good spot, they continued forward without stopping for long, heading for the sea area where they had conducted night fishing before.
At first glance, the vast and boundless sea surface is no different from the sea surface of other waters, except that the color of the water appears slightly darker.
There was no obvious movement of flathead bonito in sight.
"It doesn't look like there are flathead bonito. Could we have come to the wrong place?" Liang Tiancheng had never been here before, so he asked doubtfully.
"The place should not deviate too much. We have been here more than once for night fishing. But it is hard to say whether there are flathead bonito. Flathead bonito swim everywhere and rarely stay in one place!" Liang Ziqiang explained.
"Now that we are here, let's go fishing!" Liang's father decided.
His boat had already started to lower ropes and hooks into the water. Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang did not hesitate and immediately started working.
Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng worked together to connect the fishing line to the main rope, releasing it as they went along. After all twelve fishing lines were released, the left side was ready.
Then twelve fishing lines are tied to another main rope and released into the sea on the right side of the boat.
In this way, there are exactly six hundred hooks on each side of the ship, left and right.
There are a total of 1,200 hooks, all of which are small pieces of meat from thorny fish and white mullet.
If there really is a flathead bonito swimming underwater, this kind of fish block bait is quite suitable for the bonito's appetite!
Longline fishing is different from ordinary fishing. It takes a long time to wait. In the next hour or two, Liang Ziqiang and his team slowly started to see if they could find some more fish on the water.
If there are fish whose price is barely acceptable, you can cast a few nets while waiting for nothing to do.
I actually found some spotted bass floating on the water surface, very scattered and not in groups.
With the mentality of "I might as well have nothing to do", they all picked up their nets and started fishing one or two fish at a time.
The location during fishing is very different from usual times.
Normally, I would stand at the side of the boat to cast the net, but this time I obviously couldn't do that. The longline had already been laid on the side of the boat, and if I cast the net, the fishing net would definitely be caught by the iron hook of my longline. Then, the fishing net and the fishing line would be tangled together, and both would be messed up.
This time, Liang Ziqiang stood at the bow and cast the net toward the sea. Longline fishing extends backwards, so the bow position will not conflict with it.
But at the same time, Liang Ziqiang also became doubly cautious because casting a net from the bow is actually much more dangerous than casting a net from the side of the ship!
From time to time, I cast a net and catch two or three sea bass, which is better than nothing.
This went on for more than an hour, almost two hours, and finally it was time to stop fishing.
"There's a fish!" Zhu Tianpeng shouted after just pulling a few times.
At the top, I caught fish on those hooks. Not surprisingly, they were sea bass.
Since striped bass can be seen on the water surface, it is not surprising to see striped bass taking the hook underwater.
What Liang Ziqiang was more concerned about was whether the expected bonito would appear if he continued to pull.
At this moment, Liang Ziqiang felt the fishing line in his hand tighten, and there was a feeling of heaviness coming from underwater. Suddenly, he felt a surge of anticipation and excitement.
This feeling is likely to indicate that you have caught a slightly larger fish. And flathead bonito is one of those larger fish.
"I'm afraid a flathead tuna has really been hooked!" Deng Zhaocai has already shouted.
However, after a few seconds, Liang Ziqiang's mood dropped.
What surfaced was indeed a large fish, but it was obviously not a flathead bonito.
This fish has a very strange appearance, with a horse face and gray-blue skin all over.
"Horse-faced fish? How could it be a horse-faced fish!" Deng Zhaocai exclaimed in surprise.
The horse-faced fish, also known as the horse-faced pufferfish and the skinned fish, is a fish with an ugly appearance and strange bones. Usually, this fish lives at the bottom, but sometimes it swims vertically up and down and runs to the middle and upper layers.
This fish can be big or small, ranging from a few kilograms to dozens or hundreds of kilograms.
Liang Ziqiang pulled this fish up from the bottom of the water, and it was estimated to be about ten pounds.
It is big, but the price... it is basically on the same level as the thorny fish and tofu fish.
The skin is hard and rough like sandpaper, and it is impossible to eat it, so you have to peel it off and then put it in the pot, so it is named "peeled fish".
I kept pulling the fishing line. The closer the hook got to the seabed, the more pufferfish it caught.
They usually weigh about one or two kilograms, and the larger ones are as big as the one just now, weighing more than ten kilograms.
I came here for the flathead bonito, but I accidentally took all the skinned fish squatting at the bottom...
There is no doubt that the other two ships are in the same situation as Liang Ziqiang.
Then a bizarre scene appeared on the sea: six people were busy reeling in and catching fish, a pleasing harvest scene, while they were cursing and saying that they had lost a lot today...
After removing hundreds of hooks from the left side of the boat, he moved on to the right side.
Don’t ask how much you have harvested. The only thing you need to know is that your hands are almost broken from fatigue.
There must be at least 500-600 kilograms. There were basically no fish on the upper and middle hooks, all of them were concentrated on the lower hooks, after all, pufferfish are bottom fish. Liang Ziqiang was even a little thankful for this.
What was infuriating was that not a single flathead bonito appeared from the beginning to the end. Liang Ziqiang's face was swollen like a meat bag after being beaten. It was he who suggested coming here to fish for flathead bonito...
While collecting the hooks and taking the fish, they hung the shrimps that they had just caught with the net at the bow of the boat back on the empty hooks and threw them into the water again.
After all the thousands of hooks were baited and put back into the water, they turned the boat around and left the place.
As the water slowly cleared, I suddenly saw dozens of long and narrow fish jumping out of the water, like small silver knives.
"Needle fish?" Zhu Tianpeng said.
When I got closer, I saw not only a small group of needlefish, but also a small group of white shrimp. The needlefish kept jumping out of the water to catch the white shrimp.
"Throwing the net at the bow, be careful and steady!"
Liang's father shouted a warning to Liang Ziqiang, then he carried the website to the bow and left.
In this case, of course, both the fish and the small white shrimps will be caught in one net.
The boat was sailing slowly and steadily, slowly following the trail of the small school of fish. Several people stood at the bow and carefully cast the net.
The scale was not large. Liang Ziqiang cast three or four nets in a row. It was estimated that the harvest of needle fish and small white shrimps must have exceeded 100 kilograms.
After staying here for a while and finishing casting the net, the eldest brother Liang Tiancheng pulled up one of the longline fishing lines from the water with the idea of giving it a try.
"There are fish? There are fish under the water!" The eldest brother's excited voice came over here...
Three consecutive shots (end of this chapter)
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